In honor of Charles Dickens' birthday today, large financial institutions lobbied Congress for the intoduction of debtors' prisons. At Republican-led Congressional hearings, a resident scholar from the American Enterprise Institute testified that "Charles Dickens' whole family was in debtors' prison for a time, and I think we can safely say it spurred his productivity. Who knows? This could turn out to be a boon for modern literature as well. No more post-modern crap."Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Congress has a Dickens of a thought.
In honor of Charles Dickens' birthday today, large financial institutions lobbied Congress for the intoduction of debtors' prisons. At Republican-led Congressional hearings, a resident scholar from the American Enterprise Institute testified that "Charles Dickens' whole family was in debtors' prison for a time, and I think we can safely say it spurred his productivity. Who knows? This could turn out to be a boon for modern literature as well. No more post-modern crap."
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